diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f3a99aa..8a59b71 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 ### Added
 - Added the ability to merge multiple images into a single PDF
+- Added the ability to load PDFs from byte arrays
 
 ### Changed
 - Using lists for :imports
diff --git a/src/pdfboxing/common.clj b/src/pdfboxing/common.clj
index aa2a153..a7d36e4 100644
--- a/src/pdfboxing/common.clj
+++ b/src/pdfboxing/common.clj
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
   (obtain-document [source]))
 
 (extend-protocol PDFDocument
+  (class (byte-array 0))
+  (obtain-document [source]
+    (PDDocument/load source))
+
   String
   (obtain-document [source]
     (load-pdf source))
diff --git a/test/pdfboxing/common_test.clj b/test/pdfboxing/common_test.clj
index a507750..34165eb 100644
--- a/test/pdfboxing/common_test.clj
+++ b/test/pdfboxing/common_test.clj
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
   (:require [clojure.java.io :as io]
             [clojure.test :refer [deftest is testing]]
             [pdfboxing.common :refer [is-pdf? obtain-document]])
-  (:import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument))
+  (:import (org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel PDDocument)
+           (java.nio.file Files)))
 
-(deftest pdf-existance-check
+(deftest pdf-existence-check
   (testing "If document supplied is a PDF"
     (is (false? (is-pdf? "test/pdfs/a.txt")))
     (is (true? (is-pdf? "test/pdfs/hello.pdf")))))
@@ -36,3 +37,13 @@
         (finally
           (when (instance? PDDocument doc)
             (.close doc)))))))
+
+(deftest obtain-document-returns-pddocument-if-provided-byte-array-check
+  (testing "obtain-document returns a PDDocument if a byte-array of a pdf is supplied"
+    (let [bytes (Files/readAllBytes (.toPath (io/file "test/pdfs/hello.pdf")))
+          doc (obtain-document bytes)]
+      (try
+        (is (instance? PDDocument doc))
+        (finally
+          (when (instance? PDDocument doc)
+            (.close doc)))))))
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